[June 18, 2009] FiberLight® Lights Up Baltimore Technology Park Customer Base in Northern Virginia and Metro Baltimore BALTIMORE --(Business Wire)-- FiberLight (News - Alert), LLC, a leading optical transport solutions provider, announced that Baltimore Technology Park (BTP) has selected FiberLight to provide secure Ethernet capacity to connect BTP's data center with Greater Baltimore's Business District and the Equinix (News - Alert) Data Center Service Facility in Ashburn, VA. Equinix is considered one of the largest IP Peering locations on the East Coast. FiberLight's Ethernet offering will provide BTP clients with a direct, affordable, low-latency route to Equinix. "It's a win-win solution for Baltimore Technology Park and FiberLight," said Mike Miller, FiberLight CEO. "Connecting BTP to downtown Baltimore and Ashburn, VA allows us to extend our footprint, while BTP benefits from FiberLight's robust core metro network and our 24/7 network monitoring capabilities to proactively address any issues." FiberLight's secure 400-mile metro optical ring architecture in the DC/VA/MD region will enable BTP customers to further protect critical IT systems and stored data from natural disaster and unpredictable outages. BTP's customer base will benefit from dedicated connectivity to the major IP peering points, data centers and carrier hotels located in Baltimore, Washington DC and Northern Virginia at speeds up to 10 Gig. "We want to meet client needs for additional bandwidth capacity without sacrificing information transport security and design flexibility," BTP President Jim Weller said. "FiberLight offers a cost efficient method to provide our clients with the bandwidth capacity and speed businesses require while reducing the risk of lost data." FiberLight's LightSource Products will allow BTP's customers' access to a host of Major IP Providers, Media/Content Delivery Networks and WAN networks doing business in the Mid-Atlantic area, the United States and around the world. About Baltimore Technology Park (BTP) BTP is a 30,000-square-foot, purpose-built facility that provides the highest level of security and redundancy for businesses of all types and sizes who require reliable data center services. BTP's corporate headquarters are located at 1401 Russell Street, in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information, visit Baltimore Technology Park at www.baltimoretechnologypark.com. About FiberLight FiberLight provides Ethernet, Wavelengths, IP, SONET, and Dark Fiber optical transport network solutions to telecom carriers, government, large enterprise, content providers and web centric businesses. FiberLight wholly owns its 500,000-mile network in key growth areas and offers robust metro networks in Georgia, Florida, Washington DC, Texas, Virginia and Maryland as well as long haul options to New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix. For more information, visit FiberLight at www.fiberlight.com. [ Back To the Online Project Management Community's Homepage ]